The CD player is dead.......


I am still waiting for someone to explain why a cd player is superior to storing music on a hard drive and going to a dac. Probably because you all know it's not.

Every cd player has a dac. I'll repeat that. Every cd player has a dac. So if you can store the ones and zeros on a hard drive and use error correction JUST ONCE and then go to a high end dac, isn't that better than relying on a cd player's "on the fly" jitter correction every time you play a song? Not to mention the convenience of having hundreds of albums at your fingertips via an itouch remote.

If cd player sales drop, then will cd sales drop as well, making less music available to rip to a hard drive?
Maybe, but there's the internet to give us all the selection we've been missing. Has anyone been in a Barnes and Noble or Borders lately? The music section has shown shrinkage worse than George Costanza! This is an obvious sign of things to come.....

People still embracing cd players are the "comb over" equivalent of bald men. They're trying to hold on to something that isn't there and they know will ultimately vanish one day.

I say sell your cd players and embrace the future of things to come. Don't do the digital "comb over".
devilboy
It's kind of difficult to sling arrows at the old guard when your quiver contains only platitudes.

-Bob
Liz: I too am a "computer moron". I had no problems or issues whatsoever setting up my computer as a server. If you have half a brain cell, it's really not that difficult.
" I simply wanted to know what makes one stick with a cdp"

familiarity and comfort zone.
There is no doubt that the computer based music will replace CD in the future. But it won't get a lot of traction until the following problems are addressed.

1. ease of converting existing CD collection to HD without someone sitting on a computer for hours and hours ripping them.
2. crash protection. HD crash is the reality. It's not the matter of if, but matter of when. Relying on the owners to manually backing up one HD to another just doesn't cut it.
3. availability of downloadable music. The tiny selection of available lossless downloadable music doesn't cut it.

When all these issues are addressed, then maybe there is a merit in discussing CD vs HD as transport.
if cd is the comb-over to whatever fashionable hairdo the harddrive is, what does that make my turntable...hair plugs?

if you are happy with your tarddrive set up, be happy. if you are so insecure about your decision...ok, you're right. Your stereo sounds better, you win.

if someone is already enjoying their cdp, assuming their interest is enjoying music and not following trends or collecting new gear, what do they gain from explaining why?

btw, i have thousands of cd and thousands of lps at my ACTual fingertips. very convenient as well.